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A Free Kid-Safe Internet Browser
TUKI Free Internet Filter & Parental Control Filter
Another Fuzzi Day
Solve one of the puzzles, watch the movie then enter the contest to win a Razor Scooter!
Arcade Village
Free online arcade games. Some news, some revivals of old goodies. Best score of the world listing. No need to register or download something. Just click and play. No blood, no violence.
Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day
Like chess? Well, then I've got something that's right up your street. Everyday you'll find new free chess problems on Bruno's Chess Problem of The Day. Do you spend your day looking for logic puzzles, free chess strategies or tactics? Come on, visit my site and find our free chess games. Visit this site daily before or after work and try to solve free online chess games. Different levels of difficulties are available ranging from very easy (checkmate in 1) to very difficult (checkmate in 6 or more). A solution to the problem will be made available the next day. Archives of problems over the last 10 days can be consulted. When you play chess online or offline, chess strategy is needed, but don't forget chess tactics. Improve this skill with our free online chess games puzzles.
Cartoon Network Games
A comprehensive collection of Cartoon Network Games available for play instantly and without registration.
Welcome to Coolw3b. We host a number of Games, Competitions, Members, and much much more
Cubitgame.com Free Play Games and Download Games Unlimited
Cubitgame.com in this website you can free play and download games for unlimited, starts from arcade, action, shooting, funny, puzzle, sports. you can funny and no boring
Emperor's New Suit
Online story and internet game retelling the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Fun drag n drop dress-up games where you dress up the emperor in outrageous cartoon costumes. Flash animation, entertainment, and play sites for children, kids, and the entire family.
Free Flash Games
Over 1400 free flash games that you can play right away. No need to download or install anything, and theyre all totally free!
Hundreds of free games for the family.
Play free games online for fun at JaDeal.com. Play 2d game, flash, shockwave, 3d arcade games for your amusement. Play games around the world.
Kidchess! - Comprehensive Chess Services and Instruction for the Scholastic Player
Participation in Chess has been shown to increase test scores in reading and math. Chess helps develop critical thinking, problem solving abilities, memory, attention span, patience, and sportsmanship. Kid Chess classes feature tournaments with trophies, computer-guided instruction, chess clocks, large boards and pieces, blindfolded chess, and bughouse chess.
MAMEGAME.TV (Dear free game site)
A lot of dear free games even the child that a small ninja MAMEZO is active feels relieved, and to be able to be idle.
Protect your Computer from your Child and your Child from the Internet
Download BrowseWithMe.com's Kid Friendly Web Browser Protects your Computer from your Child and your Child from the Internet Allows children unsupervised access to the Internet by choosing what is available to them. Be alerted of new fun and educational sites that will benefit you and your child. Easy to use, fun, and educational.
The Original Shnoozles
The Shnoozles' web site is filled with music, coloring pages, recipes, jokes, games, Shnazzercise, and so much more!
The Planet W
No violence. No ads. Free games and movies for the family. Meet Pete Neat and pals as they travel to an unknown planet inhabited by wierd creatures.
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Website about Animal Crossing: Wild World. A Nintendo DS game. Website over het meest schattige Nintendo DS spel van dit moment: Animal Crossing: Wild World.
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1 Word Jumbles
Online Fun Games for Little Kids. Learn about words of things found at the garden, in the forest, at the beach, in the sea, night things, in the sky, buildings, at the circus, at the zoo, jobs people do and a lot more.
2Bee or Nottoobee
2Bee and Queen Nottoobee need flowers to make honey. Help them find flowers by choosing the correct verb to complete the sentences.
Ages 3-6 Fun Games
Play Memory Match, DinoDraw, Fish World, Over 18 Mazes! and Hatch and Match. Come in and have a lot fun...
AJ and Jammin Juicers Games
Fun playing games, send holiday cards, enter a contest, and learn about drinking healthy beverages.
All Mixed Up
A collection of classic online games. Challenging, fun and suitable for kids of all ages.
Alphabet Games
Teach your kids the Alphabet. Four different lessons. For Ages 4-6.
Anastasia Words
Click on the word to hear it, then click on the picture that marches the word.
A Natural Symphony
The great conductor and composer Lauren Gazelle needs your help. Only you can find the animal sounds to complete his natural symphony! You must explore several ecosystems, and their animals, to find the sounds that will complete his signature song.
Animals of the World
Get a few clues you need to guess the animal in the picture - mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians.
Apple Jacks Game
Apple Jacks, a site for kids with a club atmosphere, complete with trivia and games online.
A Rainbow of Frogs
Welcome to the Chateau Meddybemps learning activities on Color. Join Frogwart Witchet (disguised as a frog - that's her with the hat) and her colorful friends in four exercises designed to help your preschooler develop important observation and thinking skills.
Arty the Part-time Astronaut
Loads of animated space fun - travel to the planets, play games and more.
Attleboro Kids
A Fun and Educational Place to Play Online
Deluxe Digital Corporation and Lillian Senecoff-Reynolds bring you the amazing Turtletown, home of plucky awesome adventurer Stanley the Flying Turtle! The wonderful, whimsical 3D town allows you to navigate anywhere you want on the site just by clicking your mouse on one of the fantastic turtle buildings. An exciting blend of games, stories, and interactive media, AzingZang.net stimulates a child's desire to read and explore.
Barbie Girls Fun Online
Barbie - Activities and Games Online!
Batter's Up Baseball - Math Game Ages 6-9
Can you score a Homerun? How about a base hit? This is a fun and challenging game to learn math.
On-Line Version of battleship Game!
Beach Fun with Otty
Match objects and learn the different shapes.
Beauty and the Beast Missing Magic
Find the missing object. Very Easy, Lets Do it!
Boowa & Kwala
This site is for kids who want to play fun interactive games / activities, read a great illustrated story and listen to some great music and songs with Boowa and Kwala. Singalong songs, fun interactive games and activities
Bring Down the Walls of Jericho
A kind of sideways, slow-moving Break-out style game.
Buddy Brush
Ideas That Play, designers, developers and marketers of computer-based musical adventures for kids.
Captan Crunch
Cap'n Crunch - join the hunt for the missing Cap'n and play cool games to get more clues!
CastleMouse 2000
The classic puzzle game is all new for the millenium. Try to scare the mouse out of the hole by setting up a chain reaction of animals. Puzzles range from easy to make-you-queezy, and there's a different one each day.
Change Maker
Get as much money in your piggy bank as possible, by figuring out the correct change.
Chef Jr. Comic Construction Kit
CReating you own story, pick backgrounds, stamps, color it, and write the text.
Chess Puzzle Games
Chess tutorial software for kids.
Chicken-Tic-Tac-Toe Will let anyone beat a birds brain.
Clean Up the Park
Help Sir Trombone keep his environment cleant by placing the items in their proper recyle bins.
Click-Apart Choo Choo
Click Apart Choo Choo - Click on various parts of the Train for sound effects.
Coloring Online
Online Coloring is Fun! Pick any of the coloring books and have Fun.
Coloring Pages
Coloring Pages Online Coloring
Confederate Bones Mystery
Can you find the hidden treasure and save the Kudzu Kids? The Kudzu Kids are trapped in the tunnels with buried treasure! If you're ready to find them, just click on the map area where you think the Kudzu Kids and the treasure are located.
Just click on the dots in order and a picture will appear. You'll see a toy that's fun for play.
Create A Creature
Are you ready to create your very own creature? It's as simple as drag and plop. You can choose one face shape, one set of eyes, one nose, any two ears, one mouth, one hairstyle, and up to three accessories. To begin designing your face, select the part that you would like to change from the panels on the sides of the screen.
Create Your Own Adventure
Fill in the blanks and create you own adventure with Kratt's Creatures.
Creating Your Own Holiday Art
It's so easy to make your own Holiday Art! Just select your favorite design and click on it!
Creating Your Scenario
Create your own play. Choose stars and assign their lines, then click the "Create My Scenario" button to see your work.
CyberChase Code Breaker Game
Cool code breaking game for kids. Lots of fun and good for basic reading readiness.
CYKE-Cyber Knowledge and Emotion
Take a ride with the E. Motion Express and find out how to help Monkey, Sandy, Piggy, and Tripitaka with their feelings.
Decorate Eastern Eggs
Pick the favorite patterns for 3 eggs.
Dental Defense
If you liked "Asteroids," you'll find Dental Defense a real blast. Your teeth are being bombarded by sweets. Zap 'em with the toothpaste tube before they rot your teeth!
Designing a Clown
Design your own clown face.
Design Your Barbie
Design Your Own Doll selecting her name, skin, hair, eyes, outfit and accessories
Dewey Does Online Games
Click on the game you want to play and follow the instructions. Lets play!!
Digby Mole's Word Games
What sort of word games do you like to play? First Letters Rhymes or Marching.
Dinosaurs Scrambler
Check how quickly you can get all the Dino Puzzle pieces into their right places.
Discovery Online Games
Discovery Games and Interactive. This is the games hub page for Discovery Channel.
Disney Games Online
Disney Games offers kids play time with their favorite Disney characters (and some fresh faces too!) in a variety of arcade, sports, strategy, and adventure games.
Dollhouse Sticker Fun
Using the mouse decorate your own dollhouse. Netscape 4 required.
Don's Dugout
Don the Mole has discovered some unwanted crittres in his garden. Can you help dig down and rid the garden of these pests?
Double Fun Match
Come in, pick the symbols and difficulty level you wish to play and click "Start Game" to begin.
Doug the Slug
Doug the Slug - Entertaining, educational relief for bored children ages 2 - 8 and their beleaguered parents.
Drag and Drop Game
Drag the pictures to the correct word box. Great for kids learning to read! Ages 3-6.
Various games hosted by cartoon animations, using drag and drop interaction (requires Netscape 6 or other browser compliant with W3.org standards). Letter blocks, arithmetic, planet comparisons, etc.
Dragon Tales Story Stickers
Making your own scenes for this Dragon story.
Dress Ricky Raccoon
Help Heidi dress in different outfits. If you get all parts to an outfit, she'll do something for you.
Dress the Teddy Bear Game
Try to match them up. Then try mixing them up to see what silly character you can make. To play, just click on the little buttons on the left side of the pictures.
Earth Quiz Game
Answer Questions Like. What is the largest Ocean on the Earth? and How many bones are in an adult male human body? Kids Ages 6-12.
Educational Online Games
Online Education Games About Reading, Language Arts, Spelling, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health and Arts. Have Fun While You Learn.
Elves Matching Game
Welcome to the Elves Matching Games. Santa still has a hard time spotting identical twin elves. He tend to be slightly confused with all the elves. Mixing up their names. This sometimes lead to some amusing misadventures. But I don't want to reveal too many secrets, so I'll maybe tell a bit of those misadventures another time.
Energetic Elephant
Reading and Learning about energetic elephant - animation and speech.
English Experiments
The English Experiments page to experiment with English or create great word puzzles to stump your friends
Face Place
Drag and drop items to create a face, or select painting option to draw.
Fake Out
Choose one words, and guess its definition.
Family Games
Welcome to the Family Games Web Center, official home of AHA! Software's non-violent shareware and freeware games for families.
Farm Animal Sounds
Listen and use the mouse to point at the animal that corresponds to the sound made.
Farm Stand - Ages 6-9 Game
Come on over to the farm stand to practice your multiplication and addition. Multiply the amount of apples or eggs by their price, then add them together for your total.
Find Funny Fishes
If finding fishes you adore, click here and you can find some more.
Fish World Game - Ages 3-6 Game
Create your own fish tank. Great for kids learning to use the mouse or for kids who just want to be creative.
Can you change all the white pieces on the board to black? Clicking on a piece will turn it to the opposite color. However, it will also turn the pieces above, below, to the right and to the left the opposite color as well.
Flower Arranging Game
Allow Children to arrange flowers online. Fun and artistic.
Free Kids Games
Free Kids Games, Online Jigsaw Puzzles, Kids Clip Art and Much More!!!
Free Online Toys
These are some toys & entertainment we've created using Macromedia Flash. They are kind of like games.
Free Online Word Games
Tons of Free Online Word Games for the whole family.
Fruit Game
Fruit Game - don't be the last one to take a piece of fruit off of the table!
Fun and Informational Games
Welcome to Fun and Information Center.
Fun Children Games
It's time to play! Lots of online games. They are organized by what plug-ins they use - including some that don't use any plug-ins.
Fun Online Games for Kids
A very sharp site with lots of intercative activities and games for kids up to ten years of age.
Fun With Fire Engines Activity
Find out what is different about the fire engines.
Fun With Hats Activity
Find Out what happens to hats when the wind blows.
Games for Age Six
Great Games for Kids Age 6 and Under.
Games For Kids Ages 6 to 9
Great Online Games for Children Ages 6 to 9 Years Old. Have Fun!!!
Games on-line for Kid Explorers
Many fun on-line games and activities for children. All clean and moral. Many are great for Christian education.
Garfield Word Searches
Find the words listed on this puzzle. The words can be found vertical, horizontal, backwards and diagonal.
GeoNet Game
To start the game, click on the Northeast, the South, or the United States, above. All of the questions for each game will be about the entire country or the region you select. You'll have 2 hours to complete the game. Be sure to click on "End Game" when you're done to see if you have become a GeoAdvisor, a GeoExpert, or a GeoChampion
Gone Fishing
Click on the fish whose costume is different from the rest.
Great Online Games for Kids
Directory for safe and fun online games for kids. Sign up for my newsletter where I feature more games kids can play.
Guess the Color
Roy G. Biv, the world's most colorful parrot, wants you to know how colors of light mix to form other colors. He'll show you a color, see if you mix red, green, and blue light to match his.
Gypsy Word Search
Find the names of Gilchrist characters in this word search.
Harcourt School Games
A site that blends interactive learning for kids in grades K-8 with resources for teachers and parents -- all to complement Harcourt School publications
Hatch & Match
Hatch an egg and see if you can match it with it's pair. Ages 3-6.
Health Online Games
Tons of Health Games to Choose from.
Hello Kitty's Shapes and Colors
Learning and Matching Shapes and Colors with Hello Kitty's.
Hidden Shapes
Find the hidden shapes and color the pictures.
Hungry Caterpillar - Ages 6-9
The objec of this game is to have the carterpillar eat as many cherries as possible. The more cherries the carterpillar eats the longer he gets. Sound easy?
Hurricane House
In the event of a hurricane, you should prepare your yard for the worst. In the image below, click on all objects which may cause a problem during a hurricane.
Interactive Games
Great Games You Play On Your Computer
Inventors Game
Have fun while you learn! Try to answer as many questions right as you can and show the computer how much you know.
Jim's Crankophone
The Crankophone displays two vowels. Listen to the words from the Crankophone. After each word sounds, choose which of the 2 vowels you can hear in the middle of the word. If you get it right the word is added to one of the lists.
Kayleigh's Playground
Learning activities, fun & games for your pre-schooler.
Kids Carnival
Play games online for free. Safe fun games for children. Educational puzzles, mazes, stories, activities and more.
KidsCom Games
KidsCom has plenty of games, message boards, kids chat, video game cheats, contests and prizes. This is a site for kids! KidsCom is a safe kid site, focusing on fun and Internet safety.
Kids Junior Games
Small World Word Fun Learn words from around the world.
Kids Just Wannao Have Fun
Links to games and story telling for all age kids.
Kids Online Games
Kids Online Games - offers fun and educational kids games to download and play at a party.
Kidspsych Ages 1-5 Games
Fun games for childrens ages 1 to 5.
Kids section, Civilization.ca
Games and activities for kids of all ages! Puzzles, colouring book, games of adventure and mystery. Explore King Tut's tomb and uncover his mummy, or try to free two children trapped in a Victorian house.
Lego Online Games
Solve problems, navigate obstacles, race to the Finish line and save the world.
Lemonade Larry - Math Game Ages 6-9
How much does the lemonade cost? Check out your math skills. Use multiplication to find out how much the lemonade costs. Type the answer into the "Total Price" box and hit total.
LifeSavers Candystand Games
A candy-based site with a bunch of online games for you to play.
Madder of Facts
This website is filled with quizzes on facts that are good for kids to know. Perhaps you have taken "mad minute:" quizzes before. This site allows you to take them online.
Magic Factory
Magic Factory - collection of games that aims to teach children about light and color.
Making Faces Game
Try to match them up. Then try mixing them up to see what silly character you can make. To play, just click on the little buttons on the left side of the pictures.
Match the Picture
One of the pictures is not like the rest. Can you tell which one? Take your time, do your best!
You found the Internet's land for fun. Ronald.com!
M.R.Petit's animated musical adventures of Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly and more!
Missle Command
Online Games for kids
Mixed and Activity Online Games
Find many activity mixed games for the whole family.
Mudpie's Markers
Play With Mudpie's Markers And Race Him To The End Of The Board!
Night Light & Pillow Fights Quiz
Read The Poems In The Night Lights & Pillow Fights Archives To Get Ready To Play This Game. Kids Ages 7-10.
Noah's Ark Webtime Story
Noah's Ark Webtime Story play AutoMagically with the ShockWave plug-in. Just wait a few seconds at each new page, and the story will begin!
One of the things is not like the other. If you are right 20 times, you can post your name!
One Of The Animals Is Not Like The Others
One Of The Animals Is Not Like The Others. Guess which one it is.
Online Free Games Directory
Free Games is a Directory of Free Games available on the Internet. We play, review and rank all the free games listed here to help you find the free games you are looking for.
Online Games for Age 6 and Under
Let's PLay Math, Language Arts, Science, History, Music, Geography Art and Physical Education Games.
Online Games for Kids
Games for Preschoolers and Elementary Kids.
Online Paint Ball
The Online Paintball Network promotes the Sport of Paintball games with a Discount Pass card Program and Free Games.
Operation Optics
Protect towns and cities by destroying the robotic Invictaborg invaders and learn about how light works!
Order the Disorder
Test your memory and match up all the image pairs. Click on tiles to begin the game.
OurKids fun and games for children of all ages, children kids fun games
Paint By Idioms
Idioms add color to language. Help FunBrain grand master, Salvabear Dali, finish his paintings by identifying the correct expression.
Paws Island
On Line Video Game for Younger Children involves manual dexterity and counting Lots of fun
They were hungy. They couldn't go on. Then they found it. PlanetSnak. Explore Planet Snak and discover ways to help this oddball trio.
Play Chess Against tkChess
Play Chess and See if you can beat the computer.
Play Free Games Online
Word Search Puzzles & Card Play
Play Kid Games Online
Let's Play Online Games with your Kids.
Play Kids Games
Play Kids' Games is designed by parents of young kids. It's intention is to provide a web site that parents and kids use to learn with while having fun.
Pochacco's Shape Matching Game
The object of this game is to fill the holes with the correctly shaped objects chosen from the right side of the panel before all the dots around the edge change color!
`Posnayko`. Play, learn, have fun.
`Posnayko`. Tremendous due to its kindness, fabulous nature, interest, usefulness and friendly price children`s electronic magazine `Posnayko` in amazing, playing, cognitive form. You can make friends with `Posnayko` too.
Prongo.com has free online games, quizzes, clip art, e-cards,wallpaper and kids jokes.
Put-Together Turkey
Help Tom Turkey get ready for Thanksgiving. Drag and Move the Pieces and put Tom together.
Score Game
Scoring Time Out - Make your child's top 15 turning points learning points (and keep your sanity).
Sesame Street Games for Preschoolers
Games that teach letters, numbers and more. Plus stories with your favorite Sesame Street characters and activities too.
It's a tough job, but someone has to smooth the ice down at the SIKIDS.COM Arena. NHL trophies such as the Stanley Cup have been carelessly left all over the rink. It's your job to scoop this misplaced hockey hardware into your Slamboni.
Smack a Bug
Practice typing with Timon and Pumba - Type the letter on your keyboard that shows up on the back of each bug.
Play Smarties matching game, coloring book, and maze, or learn more about the makers of the candy.
snakes and ladders
Free online snakes and ladders game for kids. Climb the ladders and avoid those slippery snakes.
Socrates Mystery Words
Guess and spell out the word Socrates has in mind before he disappears!
Space Jumble Game
How can you put the pieces back together? See if you can complete this 8-piece puzzle game. For Kids Ages 6-9.
Space Quiz Game
Finding Out how much do you know about space.
Spatial Concepts Fun
Parent and Child activity - look at the pictures and ask your child about what is on, beside, together, apart, full, etc
Spell People
Includes email lessons, games, and coloring book. From Kiddies-Kingdom.
Spring Match
Spring is in the air! Match the spring things to reveal a picture. See how few moves you can do it in.
Stagecast Creator Games
You want games? We've got them! Play them online or download them so you can change them in Stagecast Creator.
Stay Afloat
How to Play: (Stay afloat is similar to Hangman) Funbrain will show you a word. The player will guess a letter. If that letter is in the word, it will appear. If the letter is not in the word, one object is placed in the boat. You must guess the words before all the objects are loaded and the boat sinks!
Stock Market Game - Ages 6-9
Let's have some fun learning about different stocks. Enter your first name, choose a stock and then click my stock certificate to get started...
Summer Online Games
Grab some summer fun by the sea, playing baseball, or in the woods. Please note that many of these activities are on other sites, not part of Kids Domain. We checked for family safe content, but content can change. If you see something that's inappropriate, let us know
Tail Gunner
It is a space age shoot em up arcade game, you shoot things that looks like space ship. Fun to play. Boys do like to play these things, and this is one less game you will have to buy. Does develop eye and hand dexterity.
Ted and Floppys Online Games
We hope you enjoy using these online games and activities. You will need the shockwave plug-in to play these games.
The Beasty Game
Think of an animal and the computer will try to guess what it is.
The Birds and The Bees - All Ages Game
It's Valentine's Day and Buzter the Bee is on his way to see his Honey Bee. Avoid the obstacles and collect love hearts along the way!
The Guessing Game - Ages 6-9
Guess the same number that the computer has guessed. The number will range from 1 to 100.
The Piano Player
Do you like to play piano? See how much you can score here!
The Plural Girls
Twin sisters Pearl and Flora lost their friends in the bubble machine. Help them get their friends out by choosing the correct plural form of the given word
The Virtual Farm Yard
Click on an animal to hear the kind of sound it makes.
Tic Tac Toe - Ages 5-9
You play as the X's and the computer is the O's. Select the square you want to put your X into by clicking them.
Tic Tac Toe Squares
Get three X's in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) before the computer gets three O's in a row. Cool on-line tic tac toe game.
Too Munch Fun
Play Great Games Here In These Too Much Fun Sections.
Torosiants Trampoline Basketball
Try it your best shot, see if you can make a basket.
Tree HouseTv
Doo-Doodley-Doo! Join Suzanne in her doodle room. Create a picture on the Treesel for everyone to see!
United States Quiz Game
Find out how much you know about the US History. Test your knowledge or Learn about United States History.
US Geography for Kids
In the drill you will be presented with a State name, and then you can try to select the correct response for the questions asked based on the question topics you have selected from the right.
Wacky Tales
Our author, Dictionary Jenkins, needs help finishing some stories. Give him a hand by thinking of your own words to help him. Pick a story, and supply some nouns, adjectives and other words to complete it.
Webkids Network Games
Site for Islamic entertainment for kids. Find fun games and watch webtoons.
The gang's all here - Mr. Tooth Decay, Bob Plaque, Miss Gingivitis - and you've got to whack'em with a toothbrush!
Whose Foot Is It ?
See the footprint, and guess which of the three characters it belongs to.
William Willya's Rhyming Game
Match the words to make a rhyme. Sound them out and take your time. Use your mouse to click the word that makes the lines rhyme.
Wonder Spell
WonderSpell, the spelling fun with free letters if needed.
Word Detective
This is a custom seek and find word search game. You give FunBrain a list of words which it then hides in the puzzle.
WWF Virtual House
Choose a topic and then go search the house for an answer to the question.
Zoom Dinosaurs Quiz
The following is an on-line dinosaur quiz covering basic dinosaur facts. For each question, just click on the right answer.
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Welcome to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art which opened its doors to the public on January 2, 2010.
The Bechtler is a jewel of a museum, only the second in this country designed by the Swiss architect Mario Botta. It is intimate in scale, delightfully arresting in its spaces and vistas and simple and elegant in its materials.
The collection presented includes works by the most important and influential artists of the mid 20th century including Miró, Giacometti, Picasso, Calder, Hepworth, Nicholson, Warhol, Tinguely, Ernst, Le Corbusier, Chillida and many others. Only a handful of these wonderful artworks have been on public view in the United States. Until now, the collection was privately held by the Bechtler family of Switzerland.
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art would not exist without the extraordinary generosity of art patron Andreas Bechtler. Inspired by his parents, Andreas made his remarkable collection (amassed by the Bechtler family over 70 years) available for all to engage – whether for solace and reflection, inspiration and surprise or for challenge and self-discovery. These works and their many stories will reward any number of visits to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. It's my hope that visitors will come to form their own relationship with this remarkable art and the influential artists who created it.
Sharing the joy and excellence of the Bechtler collection with all in order to inspire, inform and enhance cultural and intellectual life.
Five-Year Community Report
Read the Bechtler's Five-Year Community Report highlighting the exhibitions, programs and community outreach efforts the museum has offered since opening in 2010.
We were recently featured in an article, Learn How a Family from Switzerland Influenced the Arts Community of Charlotte. If you're interested in North Carolina Real Estate, check out what they have to offer for Charlotte, NC Homes for Sale.
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The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to the celebration and analysis of the strongest aspects of mid- century modernism as reflected in the holdings of the Bechtler collection.
The collection comprises
more than 1,400 works by 20th-century modern artists. Some works are accompanied by books, photographs and letters illustrating personal connections to the Bechtler family.

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SACRAMENTO — In the legislative session's final rush, with hundreds of bills bouncing between chambers and then to the governor's desk or into oblivion, few moments were as emotional as when lawmakers voted to grant driver's licenses to immigrants who are in the country illegally.
Supporters say AB60 will have a tremendous impact not just on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who'll soon be able to drive to their jobs, their children's schools and elsewhere without fear, but for all other drivers and passengers who'll be safer sharing roads with better-trained drivers who have car insurance.
The law will take effect Jan. 1, 2015, or sooner if the Department of Motor Vehicles is ready.
Though unyielding opposition to illegal immigration long has been a litmus test for conservatives across the nation, some Republicans — including some who voted for AB60 — have come to believe both that their districts would benefit from a more nuanced view, and that it could appeal to the ever-growing Latino electorate that has become a crucial swing vote in so many places.
For the immigrants themselves, the driver's license issue is something they grapple with every day.
Estefany Mendez of Concord said she's joyful that others will soon feel the relief she felt a few months ago when she got her driver's license.
"Definitely, it brings some sense of security and safety," she said Friday.
Mendez, 24, a freelance journalist born in Mexico but raised in Contra Costa County, got her driver's license in April thanks to last year's new law benefiting certain young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children who got temporary work permits under the Obama administration's "deferred action" program.
"I no longer drive in fear, watching out for police officers," she said, adding that the license gives her a feeling of place, of belonging. "Being undocumented has really opened my eyes and made me realize what an ID or Social Security card can mean to someone."
Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, stood flanked by a crowd of other Latino lawmakers on the Assembly floor late Thursday as he dedicated his bill to Los Angeles City Councilman Gil Cedillo, the former state legislator who tried for more than a decade to pass such a bill — a long, divisive battle that triggered vetoes from two former governors.
The state Senate already had approved it 28-8, and moments after the Assembly's 55-21 vote — as the chamber echoed with applause and a flurry of hugs, handshakes and backslaps — Gov. Jerry Brown issued a rare, immediate statement of support.
Brown also has stated his intention to sign another Alejo bill — AB10, to hike the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $9 next July and to $10 in January 2016 — which was among the legislative session's most controversial and far-reaching.
But there's less certainty about what he'll do with the ton of other bills now crowding his desk: at least a dozen gun-control bills that would once again give California the nation's strictest gun laws; a partial withdrawal from a federal deportation program; and a bill to regulate oil and gas fracking.
Friday was the session's regularly scheduled end, but that conflicted with the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, so lawmakers spent most of the week in overdrive to finish by midnight Thursday.
Amid the rush, AB60's passage was a bit of a surprise: As late as Wednesday, Alejo had said he would sit on the bill until January to address concerns that licenses issued to immigrants in the country illegally would carry special markings to distinguish them from others.
The special markings were included so AB60 wouldn't run afoul of the federal Real ID Act, a 2005 law that deals with use of state driver's licenses for official purposes like boarding airplanes, entering government buildings and so on. California's marked licenses won't be able to be used for such things.
Though support was mostly Democratic, two Republican senators — Anthony Cannella, R-Modesto, and Andy Vidak, R-Fresno — and two Republican assemblymen — Katcho Achadjian, R-San Luis Obispo, and Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo — voted for it, too.
"There are both social and financial reasons to provide licenses to immigrants who are part of our communities," Cannella said.
Nobody spoke against the bill in the Senate, though a few Republicans spoke against it in the Assembly. Tim Donnelly, R-Hesperia, said that granting licenses to these immigrants would send mixed signals to businesses and landlords trying to abide by immigration laws — and that the special markings would stigmatize the licenses' holders.
"It's offensive we are going to give people a separate but not-quite-equal identification," he said.
Some Democrats weren't happy with the markings, either, but chose to support the bill as better than nothing at all. "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do," quipped gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco.
All immigrants used to be able to get driver's licenses in California, until a 1993 bill — carried by the late Sen. Al Alquist, D-San Jose — required that all license applicants provide a Social Security number as proof of legal residency. People who aren't in the country legally can't get a Social Security number.
Dan Stein, president of Federation for American Immigration Reform, whose group aims to reduce both legal and illegal immigration, issued a statement Friday blasting AB60 as a danger to "the security of every American."
"In Sacramento, bestowing benefits and privileges on illegal aliens trumps all other concerns. That is more than unfortunate; it is potentially catastrophic." But Arturo Carmona, executive director of the national online Latino political group Presente.org, said AB60's passage tells the nation and the world that the Golden State is "clearly moving away from the (Gov. Pete) Wilson era of anti-immigrant politics … and we will continue to fight the remnants of the anti-immigrant era in California to the end."
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
highlights from LEGISLATURE's FINAL WEEK
Here are just some of the controversial or noteworthy bills that did or didn't reach Gov. Jerry Brown's desk at the end of this session.
SB 374 by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento — would add all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines to the state's list of banned assault weapons.
SB 475 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco — would essentially ban gun shows at the Cow Palace by requiring approval from San Francisco and San Mateo supervisors for such shows.
SB 683 by Sen. Marty Block, D-San Diego — would require owners of long guns to earn safety certificates like those already required of handgun owners.
AB 48 by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley — would ban conversion kits that allow people to turn regular magazines into high-capacity magazines.
AB 180 by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland — would give Oakland an exemption from state pre-emption so it can pass its own stricter gun registration or licensing statutes.
AB 711 by Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, D-South Gate — would ban use of lead ammunition in hunting.
SB 4 by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Calabasas — would impose regulations on fracking and other alternative means of extracting oil and gas.
SB 109 by Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro — would require that limousines for hire that have been modified to carry more passengers have at least two doors and one or two push-out windows to serve as emergency exits.
SB 135 by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Van Nuys — would require that the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services develop a comprehensive earthquake early-warning system.
AB 4 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco — the TRUST Act, would partially withdraw California's cooperation in the federal Secure Communities deportation program.
*AB 10 by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville — would hike the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $9 next July and to $10 in January 2016.
*AB 60 by Alejo — would let illegal immigrants living in California obtain driver's licenses.
SB 47 by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco — would have banned "bullet buttons" that allow fast swapping of rifle magazines.
SB 53 by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles — would have required background checks for ammunition purchases.
SB 323 by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Long Beach — would have revoked the tax-exempt status of any "public charity youth organization," such as the Boy Scouts, that discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality or religion.
SB 396 by Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley — would have forced Californians to give up all ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, no matter when they were bought.
AB 604 by Ammiano — would have required the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to set up a division to monitor production, transportation and sales of medical marijuana.
AB 976 by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego — would have allowed the California Coastal Commission to impose fines.
See longer version at mercurynews.com/government-politics.


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Playing Barbie in two "Toy Story" editions would be seem like an impressive gig. But for voice actress Jodi Benson, it's pretty tough to beat her Prince Ariel empire.
Benson voiced the classic character from the 1989 film "The Little Mermaid." And the little mermaid turned out to be big business two decades later. It has kept her working non-stop since then -- the Disney character is still that popular today.
"It's been 25 years and going, I actually started the project in 1985," Benson tells PopcornBiz. "And it's still a full-time job now."
"Ariel is considered one of the classic princesses," she continues. "Now you have Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Ariel. And every seven years yo have another generation that's ready to engulf this whole princess mania."
So much so that when Benson moved with her family outside Atlanta, Ariel and Disney followed. "I have a studio in my house for the itty-bitty stuff," she says. "So I run around in my sweatpants and baseball cap and have a regular life. I work in the studio for up to two hours every day."
For the bigger projects, Benson heads into Atlanta for a professional recording studio. Projects include everything from DVDs to Disneyland attractions.
Not only has the voice provided a full-time gig, it has lead to other roles -- like Barbie. "Every job I've had since 1989 has been because of Ariel," says Benson. "Absolutely."
"So when people say, 'Aren't you sick of it, don't you find it limiting?' I'm like, I have no problem with that."
Plus, working the voice is great for her friends' kids. "I do birthday calls a lot," says Benson. "My friend will call and say her daughter is turning three tomorrow and having an Ariel swim party. I'll call and they'll put me on speaker phone."
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The new interactive notifications in Apple's iOS 8 promise to change how you use your iPhone. But some of the changes, at least at first, may not be ones you like."
Interactive notifications will give end users and developers entirely new ways of interacting with apps, and of being aware of what's going on in your digital world and responding to it. But it also means that you could be hit with a surge of intrusive, importunate, cajoling, promoting, demanding interactions from businesses trying to leverage their iOS apps. The good news: they may finally be wising up to the fact that less is more.
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Businesses have been among the most aggressive users of notifications in an effort to create "mobile moments" to engage the user, according to Brent Hieggelke, chief marketing officer for Urban Airship, a Portland, Ore., vendor that offers a hosted service for companies to manage these kinds of mobile interactions on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and soon Windows Phone devices. "Our customers use us to drive engagement via push messaging and in-app messaging."
For plenty of mobile users, this is simply the mobile, digital equivalent of junk mail. And it makes plenty of users really, really mad.
"This industry started off in a broadcast mindset," Hieggelke says. "A business has something it wants to say so the idea was 'blast it out to everyone who has our app.' But now companies are trying to deliver extremely relevant messages to their consumers. If you don't do that, you are basically interrupting them. And people will not tolerate being interrupted on their smartphone."
Notifications let an app that is running in the background tell its user that it has something for their attention, such as a message or a scheduled appointment. Notifications can be local, which are scheduled by an onboard app and delivered to the same device, or remote, which are sent by an app developer's server to the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS), which then directs the notification to the corresponding app on a specific device. The user hears an audible sound, or sees either a banner with information appear on screen or a "badge" (an image or number) appear on the app icon.
Today, you can view notifications in the Notification Center, from any screen including the Lock screen, just by swiping down from the top of the screen. But until now, if the notification is for another app, you have leave the app you've been in, to take any action on the notification.
In iOS 8, the notification can present you with options for direct actions, which you can take without leaving the app that you're using. The concept is deceptively simple. But some, such as Wired's Matt Honan, thinks this change will redefine the smartphone interface.
"[T]his interactivity is not just limited to system apps," he writes in a recent blogpost. "Third-party developers can take advantage of this new capability as well, so you could comment on something on Facebook, respond to a tweet, or even check in on Foursquare. But others are going to be radical, stuff we haven't imagined yet."
Of course, if it can't be imagined yet, it's hard to be certain that it will actually be radical. More importantly, the real radicalism may lie in Apple's major improvements in iOS 8 (and OS X Yosemite) to its inter-process communications (XPC) APIs, which let developers create fine-grained services that handle specific tasks for an application, including interactions with other apps. [Daring Fireball's John Gruber has a short post about the XPC improvements.]
But in any case, iOS interactive notifications do create a new vector for interrelating users and apps and data. And businesses are already getting their own notifications about how important this change can be.
"There is an incredible amount of potential for businesses to improve their app's stickiness and drive continued engagement, even without having their end-users directly in the app," writes Kelly O'Regan, in a blogpost at Solstice Mobile, on "How iOS 8 Interactive Notifications Will Change Your Business." Solstice Mobile focuses on helping enterprises use mobile technology to "optimize engagements with their employees, customers, and partners."
O'Regan identifies several ways in which interactive notifications can create new interactions: enroll bank customers in a new cash-back bonus program, validate fraudulent activity, reload a Starbucks cash card, ask for simple direct feedback (about last night's dinner at a restaurant), or tell you that an item on your wish-list item just came back into stock and let you add it directly to your shopping cart without leaving your current app.
"Now is the time to start thinking about your business strategy for using interactive notifications," she encourages her prospects [emphasis in original].
That's true for any given company with a mobile app and a desire to cement its relationship to customers. But it raises the prospect of every company with a mobile app and desire to cement their relationship with their customers doing exactly the same thing.
Urban Airship's Hieggelke warns that companies have to not just think about using the new notifications but to think about them very carefully. "The penalties for 'bad push' are extreme," he says, referring to notifications that are irrelevant, badly timed, intrusive or all of the above. "Users can ignore you, shut you out, or delete your app. And deleting your app is the most likely reaction: it's real easy to delete the app compared to [the multiple steps of] going into the app and adjusting the settings."
For the past three years, Urban Airship has been promoting the idea of "good push" which is based on the insight that "more is not better," Hieggelke says. Notifications are valued, even welcomed, by users when they are relevant to their interests and needs.
Urban Airship compared the response rate (called "lift") of broadcast notifications versus targeted notifications, for over 1,000 apps and one billion pushes using their platform. "Targeting gives you almost a 300 percent lift over broadcasting," he says. "Good push done well becomes a feature, a strength, of the app."
The highest lift rates were for gambling apps, which are more common in Europe. Entertainment apps had the next highest lift, in part because notifications were fine-tuned to time of day -- different messages for morning in a coffee shop compared to for evening in a pub.
For many apps, users emphatically want certain types of notifications. "This is a triple opt-in channel," Hieggelke says. First, just by selecting and installing the app, users have taken a big step in saying 'I want this on my device." Second, they have to explicitly opt in to push notifications from the app. Finally, if the app also is requesting data on the user's location, the user has to explicitly grant that also.
Walgreens' Duane Reade pharmacy chain is beta testing a sophisticated marriage of push notifications and Apple iBeacons at 10 of its stores in New York City. The latest version of its iOS app adds support for the in-store Bluetooth iBeacons. Once inside the store, the app can be switched to in-store mode "where users will have access to their loyalty card, saved coupons, a floor map of the store, a product locator and product scanning."
Eventually, a drugstore that automatically refills your prescriptions can send you a notice when the refill is actually ready. Instead of waiting or guessing, you can be notified immediately on your iPhone when it's available.
The new interactive notifications in iOS 8 promise to change how you -- and app developers and businesses - use your iPhone. You may not like some of the changes, if you're flooded with irrelevant alerts.
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Monorail agency officially dissolves; cost taxpayers $125 million
By now, the futuristic monorail line was supposed to be zooming between West Seattle and Crown Hill.
Of course that dream died some time ago, in 2005, when the Seattle Monorail Authority discovered it didn't have enough money.
But around 6:15 p.m. Thursday night, at the tail end of the rush hour commute the line was supposed to ease, this chapter in Seattle's history came to a close. Finally, the authority created by city voters to build the line dissolved.
Jonathan Buchter, a consultant hired to staff the authority on its last day, and clearly in no need to buy office supplies, handed out packets of information to the board members.
"We're rapidly running out of paper," said Buchter, who was hired to staff the authority on its last day and formerly the authority's chief operating officer.
He had told Beth Goldberg, the authority's board chairwoman, before the meeting. "If you want to take your nameplate with you, that's one less thing for staff to do."The authority's last meeting was a final financial accounting. All 33 properties the authority bought had been sold, all lawsuits settled. The authority closed up shop with $425,963.07 in the bank, which the board voted Thursday to give to Metro for bus service in the communities that would have been served by the line.
In June 2006, the authority stopped collecting the monorail's car tabs tax, not wanting to keep taxing for a line that was not going to be built, but hoping it had enough to pay off debts.
Paul Toliver was the only board member left from the days when the board was trying to build the monorail. "I wish it had been built," he said. "Alas that is not the case."
Board member Vlad Oustimovitch asked Jonathan Buchter, a consultant hired to staff the authority on its last day, how much the monorail project ended up costing taxpayers.
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Court Confidential: Inside the World of Tennis
There has never been a period in history where tennis has been so rich in iconic personalities, and recent times have seen more astonishing, history-making stories than ever before. Small wonder, then, that Neil Harman, who this season celebrates a decade at the helm of The Times tennis coverage, should want to share the tales he has lived through in a book that drips personality, excitement, drama and intrigue from first page to last.
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In the San Joaquin Valley, water officials for months have been working to make an old river - the San Joaquin - again run through it.
In the San Joaquin Valley, water officials for months have been working to make an old river - the San Joaquin - again run through it.
Last week, wildlife officials began the next phase of the work to restore salmon runs in it.
It's a small start; two chinook salmon released 30 miles below the Friant Dam the construction of which 62 years ago spelled the end of fish runs that for eons made the San Joaquin River team with the iconic species.
The hope is the fish will spawn in the river's gravel beds and their offspring, imprinted with the river, will make their way 320 miles to the Pacific, then return in three years to complete the life cycle.
There are obstacles, physically along the river and in the knowledge needed to make this happen, but with luck and time and effort salmon may one day again be so thick that you can walk across the river on their backs.
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You'd think someone told in May his cancer was back and they had only six months to live would be down on life. You'd think someone told that who's just 22 would really be down on life.
But that's not Tucker Larson, who got all that bad news just three months after being accepted as a transfer student to San Francisco State.
He was on top of the world last week when the longtime Stockton Thunder fan found himself sitting on the bench with the team during a game.
He got to shoot a few pucks with the players earlier and even gave them a pep talk.
"When you're on that bench, you get to see the excitement, intensity and pressure and it's just phenomenal," Larson told CW31 reporter Nick Janes.
It was something else for his parents.
"Memories is all you can take with you. That's it," Dad Stephen Larson said.
"Wonderful, emotional. So to see him so happy is, as a parent, you can't put it into words," Mom Julia Larson said.
The Thunder gave the Larsons a memory they can preserve.
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When it comes to buying vs. renting, the edge goes to buying in San Joaquin County, according to a report last week from the real estate research firm Zillow.
It takes only about 2 years to reach the breakeven horizon, meaning if you plan to stay in place for at least two years you're better off buying than renting. Zillow found that in 152 of 257 metro areas surveyed have a breakeven horizon of less than three years. Among the 30 largest metros, New York metro has the longest breakeven horizon at close to 5 years, making it a better place to rent for many people. Detroit has a breakeven horizon of 1.7 years, the lowest horizon among the top 30 metros.
The city of Stockton had a breakeven horizon of 1.9 years whereas the county's longest horizon was in Morada at 2.5 years, reflecting its relatively higher home prices. Zillow took into consideration all the costs associated with buying a home (down payment, maintenance, appreciation etc.) and renting the same home (rental payments, transaction costs, appreciation etc.) to determine this breakeven horizon.
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The Downtown Stockton Alliance ousted its chief executive - the fourth to hold the job in five years - and promoted its economic development director last week. All of this is seen as a move to address downtown security issues.
Emily Baime, 31, is in and Tim Kerr is out after a 2 1/2 year tenure. At the same time, the Alliance announced it is redirecting about a third of its $1.1 million budget to pay for two full-time Stockton Police Department bicycle officers, two part-time officers and more private security.
This is a move away from event planning and promotion for the city core, but the thinking seems to be if people don't feel safe, they won't come to downtown events no matter how well planned.
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Did this as a fund raiser for charity. Our cast really got into the charactors and our audiance had a ball. Gave out detective stars and score sheets. Cast did not know who did it and we didn't rehearse so it was spontanious. A small prize was given to the persons guessing the person "WHO DONE IT". Had a buffet of pasta and salad.
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Get the red and white checked table cloth, tacky candles and lots of red wine. We suggest you have two people act as "directors" to play the tape and keep your guests on track and moving. Plan on the entire evening and use your imagination for the menu and guests costumes. We made our guests " an offer they could not refuse".
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This game was so much fun! It was hilarious with everyone trying to talk with italian accents! And the menu ideas were great! They even give you real recepies in your party planner! We cant wait to do another one!
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My Red hat club has done this twice with different players each time. It is hilarious and the women playing men's parts provides the MOST hilarity. The womanizer was kissing hands and pinching butts! You don't know how condescending men are till you see a woman playing the part! We laughed till we cried! We could not talk for our hysteria! Good thing there was a script. We would not have come up for air otherwise!
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As a bunch of Freshman we really enjoyed the game. We liked the story line from begining to end and we liked how it played out. We liked Antonio Tellastory and how he helped us to actually be the characters.
Angel from Somewhere
Such a Great Time
We needed an excuse to throw a party, so we called together the whole crew and put on a murder mystery. We had never done one before and it was such a good time! The clues came out of no where but fit in and the end was such a surprise. The characters were so varried and fit all of us perfectly. It made for an amazing Friday night! Now we are on to "Staying Alive" for more fun. We can't enough!
Sarah from Massachusetts
This was our first Murder Mystery party... everyone had a BLAST, looked great and used their best Italian accents! I can't wait to do another!
Dani from Maryland
Something different and exciting
My fiance and I were amazed at how everyone dressed to perfection, top hat, black attire, mustach, waitress outfit and more. Everyone's accent was great. We removed furniture from our livingroom and replaced with 4 bistro tables and chairs. Each table had a candle, red rose in a vase, table settings, and their guest card and script booklet. We had signs all over our house and dressed it like a restaurant. Everyone did a great job at ad-libbing between lines and acts. It was a true murder mystery to the end and we were all shocked of who done it! We plan on doing many more mysteries because of its success.
Troy & Sara from Grand Island, New York
It was a night of AMORE!
This was the BEST murder/mystery dinner I had-actually it was the first, but the first is the best! We had so much fun-the twists and turns were excellent! What made it more authentic, everyone we invited was Italian! Not to let my children feel left out, they acted as hostess/waitress and coat check/bartender--A great time had by ALL! Capiche?!
Wendy from Buffalo, NY
Lots of Laughter in Little Itlay
What a lot of fun. I had never done a murder mystery game before and now I am hooked. I went to a friends house for this and many of us improvised on a lot of the dialogue. I hurt from laughing and can't wait to host one at my house will all my friends.
Suzanne from Toledo, OH
This game was a riot!!! My family, who is mostly Italian-American and some in-laws, who are not Italian, along with some really fun neighbors played the other night. What a lot of fun we had! I especially liked decorating the house, making the "Ristorante" sign, and even an Italian sign for the bathroom! We will most definately order another "BePuzzled" game and play it real soon! We even gave out awards for the "Best Actors/Actresses" in various categories. Would highly, highly recommend this game to anyone who likes to have fun!!! Joan
Joan from Walworth, NY
Not so good...
A bit disappointed - shorter than the others, weak or no alibis. Liked the idea of performing actions, but no guidelines. Worst of the Murder a la Carte games.
Pip from UK
Great Italien murder
With a few friends this party was great. The characters were original and their secrets were dark. This made the characters fall out and cause friction. With an Italien meal and lots of wine it was a fun event. We are soon planning another one!
jade from portsmouth
Fantastic, the best one so far
Wonderful characters, best costume suggestions, the best dialogue. Looking for more but no descriptions ever say the year that the games are set. That's an important deciding factor in the dressing up descisions. Consider when reviewing please.
Margaret from Glasgow
There's nothing in life like homicide.
My sixth murder and probably one of the best. It worked well especially as most of the people there had done another before and so were aware of the rules. My main problem now is we have done the only party designed for twelve and as a result I have too many friends for the parts! Maybe I could kill some of them off, yes... that would solve that problem.
Elizabeth from England
the best laughs in a long time
once we got the idea of the game, we really got ourselves going. we took the liberty of rewriting some of the scripts to pertain more to the person whose part it was. we went and got italian paintings to put around the room, a podimium where they had their reservations and name tags to pick up. we then make up our own large menu and put it on a an easel to show the evening's specials. we also make our own wine labels with the the restruant name and winery name on. Turned out great. We put the outline of the body on the floor and had the table set just right with the italian music playing. we took considerable liberties with the play as i added the part of the waitress since i had to take care of the food and the music. then my co-host and i decided that it would be the waitress who did the killing and made her to have an affair with marco roni. I made up my own ending and then made up my own cd so that my voice played right along with the original cd. my maria chainti and i was a member of the chainti enterprises. of course no one guess me but as i told them in the beginning no one and nothing is what it seems. we had the party for my mothers 85 birthday. It started at 6 and ended at 2:30 in the morning and she was still going strong with us. i also made my own karoke and we all sang volare, mambo italiano, etc. as a group and had a real blast. my birthday is in february and i am ordering the western mystery for that one. i know it will be great.
linda from naples, florida
Fun! I'd recommend it to others!
We had a great time. I decorated with jars of various shapes/colors of pasta. Also glued a "bow-tie" pasta to each place card beneath the name. Before the party started there was a "ceremony" with the priest to honor Pepi's memory - this included a chant, incense, a white calla lilly and a shrine to the deceased which included his picture. We had three children play "alter boys" who participated in this ceremony - it got the evening off to a great start! Everyone had a blast and no one guessed the murderer!
Kathleen from Greenville SC
wicked fun for the whole family
we played this game with my in laws and all had a blast. we had loads of italian fare and everyone wore costumes (even the people i didn't expect would wear them!). we even had my 12 year old stepdaughter as a character and she had no problems. (it was too much for the 10 year old, though)..thoroughly enjoyable evening!!
averi from uk
We just finished playing this mystery din party and we had a blast!!... We set up the dining room w/ two person tables (2 wood t.v. trays w/ red and white table cloth draped over). Our regular dining table was used as a working bar, we had italian music playing, and my parents played the waitress and host at La Sperenza! My husband and I had soo much fun! We even made menus with our very own selection of foods so that everyone had a choice for what they wanted! I host these games about once a month , and I have not been let down yet, this is a must have! this was an easy game to play if you have more ppl then the game requires attending, 2 of our friends were just customers in the restaraunt that would start dialogue going. I love the dinner party games, and cant wait to own them all... I hope you enjoy too!
Krystal from Texas
Biggest hit of the year of any social event in our boating club.
We had 80 people attend at a restaurant. We feasted on a chicken parmesan dinner and red wine. Three rehearseals were held and the cast just became better with each one. No one named the murderer but everyone raved over all the fun they had at the party. They are demanding we do one every year as part of our social calandar for our boat club.
Bill Fitzgerald from Punta Gorda, Fl
We Had A Blast, so much fun!! We laughed our socks off!!
We played this game at our Church's Valentine Party with 30 people. The food theme was Italian so this game fit perfectly. We had so much fun and laughed our socks off, all the participants really got into their character's and everyone had a ball trying to figure out "who done it?" Well I wont give it away, you will have to get the game for your self and find out.
Rita from Indio, Ca.
Excellent script, loved the characters names!
The players gave 150% and became the Characters. Added a character the "Inspector" from the Pink Panther and used the theme song and had him dressed in overcoat and hat and worked the audience looking for clues. The Inspector handcuffed the guilty player at the end. All players interacted with the audience. We put this on at church a week ago and they are still laughing and wondering when we will do it again! Thanks for the other reviews that was previously submitted, I used their ideas along with our own to make this successful.
Mary from Utica, N.Y.
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Proving, once again, that I'll do anything for a sandwich....
FIT's Vincent di Fate and Melanie Reim asked Charles Hivey, the publisher of 3x3 Magazine, Viki Morgan, of Morgan Gaynin Illustration Representatives, and me to do a portfolio review of their inaugural graduate class. We started in the FIT gallery where we saw exhibits from each student, then gathered in a conference room to review their portfolios. I was a bit nervous about the idea of critiquing a group of students that have already spent a number of years as professional illustrators but I think our troika did a decent job of it. The work was excellent and clearly the students had formed a tight bond throughout the two year program. It lead to a very engaged and nurturing atmosphere. I almost feel guilty -- I think I learned more from the conversation than I was able to impart. And the sandwiches were excellent! Even better were the cookies.
As an aside: If I know anything about illustration it's Vin Di Fate's fault. He was one of the first artists I commissioned when I started at Tor. A number of years ago I asked if i could sit in on any "history of" lectures he might be giving. Rather than crash a lecture he graciously invited me into the full semester's class and at some point he introduced me to the Society of Illustrators. Truly, he is someone as interested in inspiring others as he is in his own work.
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- Carl V. Anderson said...
Vincent di Fate was one of the first artists you commissioned? Wow, you really hit the ground running!
You are correct about Vincent inspiring others I was one of the students in that inaugural class and thanks to Vincent I am now teaching in the undergrad program there.
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